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What is DCSS?
The Game
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike adventure — a dungeon filled with monsters, traps, treasures, and gods. Every run is procedurally generated. Death is permanent. Your goal: descend to Zot:5, seize the Orb of Zot, and escape alive.
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Play directly in your browser with WebTiles. Your games are saved server-side. Watch other players in real time, review morgue files after every run, and compete on the leaderboard. Free forever, no account required to spectate.
How to Play
Getting Started
- I Click Enter the Dungeon
- II Create an account or play as guest
- III Choose your species and background
- IV Descend to Zot:5 and claim the Orb
- V Escape the dungeon alive
Essential Keys
- ? Open help screen
- o Auto-explore the level
- Tab Attack nearest enemy
- s Wait one turn
- 5 Rest until full HP/MP
Choose Your Species
A few of the 25+ playable species. See them all on the Wiki.
Born warriors. Headbutt enemies for bonus damage. Excellent melee, poor magic.
Fragile but brilliant casters. Unmatched magical aptitude, paper-thin defenses.
Living stone. Innate AC and resistances that grow with level. Immune to poison.
Tiny and lightning-fast. The fastest species in the game. Fragile but evasive.
Massive HP, devastating claws, rapid regeneration. Eats everything. Simple but effective.
Parasitic regeneration — heal by dealing damage. Innate guardian spirit protects MP.
Gain a random color at level 7 that defines your abilities. Dragon breath included.
Ant-folk who can dig through walls. Four arms wield shields and weapons together.